Dr. Campbell Price

And where the gods abandoned and ignored Egypt, I have propitiated them and put things back to how they were.

Of course, a 10-year-old boy is not getting in a chariot, really.

Maybe towards the end of his life, in his later teenage years, there is evidence that Tutankhamun does engage in some kind of military activity.

But there must be powers, and we know there are powers, military powers that are not blood relations of the royal family who are thinking, right, we need to get some action going here to reclaim or at least to maintain some of these, again, areas of influence.

I don't think it's trying to defend the empire, because I think the empire, such as it was, had already frayed.

It is about trying to push those trade alliances...

Yeah, areas of influence.

Active commanders in the field.

And so those people who usually would be kind of subordinate advisors to the king really rise in prominence.

So Tutankhamun dies however he dies, believe what you want, chariot accident, malaria, killed by a hippo, whatever.

We'll never know.

But then he's succeeded by this kind of shadowy elder figure, the god's father, Ai, who rules for a couple of years.

It's A-Y, isn't it?

Yes, A-Y or A-Y-E.

He is very odd.

And then he eventually is succeeded by an out-and-out military man.

And this is your man, Horemheb.

Now, this is a very interesting figure.

So what do we know about Horemheb?

So Horemheb comes from...